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Jane Hamilton quotes: It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton quotes: It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

I'm really glad I had those years working on the orchard alongside my husband.

Jane Hamilton quotes: He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.

He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.

Jane Hamilton quotes: It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself.

It must be strange to keep your strong mind in a body that grows older and weaker and no longer resembles your own image of yourself.

Jane Hamilton quotes: She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

Jane Hamilton quotes: It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable - like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable - like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

Jane Hamilton quotes: Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.

Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.

Jane Hamilton quotes: Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

Jane Hamilton quotes: People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.

People want to be artists but don't want to do the ground work.

Jane Hamilton quotes: In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

Jane Hamilton quotes: In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Jane Hamilton quotes: Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jane Hamilton quotes: She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

Jane Hamilton quotes: Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

Life, he knew, had meaning and was fully possessed only as it was remembered and reshaped.

Jane Hamilton quotes: My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

Jane Hamilton quotes: Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Jane Hamilton quotes: We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep.

We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep.

Jane Hamilton quotes: As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.

Jane Hamilton quotes: This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through

I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in Wisconsin? I don't know. I just slug through it.

Jane Hamilton quotes: All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

All I hope, selfishly, is that there will be real books until the day I draw my last breath.

Jane Hamilton quotes: We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

We didn't have a TV until I was 12.

Jane Hamilton quotes: It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

Jane Hamilton quotes: In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be the greatest civility.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I experienced unrequited love early.

I experienced unrequited love early.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

I have since wondered if a person can know how deep a thing goes without getting outside of it, without taking it apart, without, in fact, ruining it.

Jane Hamilton quotes: In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.

Jane Hamilton quotes: We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

Jane Hamilton quotes: I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

Jane Hamilton quotes: Emma, Emma, Emma, I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

Emma, Emma, Emma, I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.